poured all the strength of the whole country and raised a million troops to come, which also shows that Yelu Hongji is really panicked, and after losing Yanyun, the foundation of the Liao State is in jeopardy.

It's not that it's really to the point where the building will fall, it's just that from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, now Da Liao has already become the Central Plains Dynasty, not a nomad, the emperors and nobles of Da Liao and the emperors and nobles of the Great Song Dynasty have long been a kind of people.

Without Yan Yun, the Liao State has degenerated from the Central Plains Dynasty to a nomadic people, but those emperors and nobles no longer know how to put cattle and sheep, but they are good at eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling.

So not only Yelu Hongji panicked, but all the Khitan nobles panicked, not only because almost all the Liao nobles had a net worth in Yanyun, but also because Yanyun lost, their most accustomed way of life was gone, and the meaning of life was lost.

This feeling of losing land is not even comparable to the loss of the northern land in the Southern Song Dynasty later, because the Southern Song Dynasty lost the northern land and went to the south, but the root of life was not lost, and the way of life is still the original way of life, and it can still live a life in Fengyue Yashi.

Among them, there is also a sense of humiliation, Liao is now the strongest country in the world, this is not something that the Liao people themselves are proud of, but also the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, but the consensus of all countries in Central Asia.

As the strongest country in the world, there is a kind of self-righteous pride, but this pride has been suddenly broken.

This sense of humiliation made those Khitan nobles hold back an unprecedented strength, that is, they wanted to be ashamed and take revenge.

Now this Da Liao can be said to be united, Yan Yun must take it back, take back Yan Yun, and must snatch back the root of his life, otherwise he is used to the wind and snow, where can he go to Ru Mao to drink blood again? Even if grazing is not Ru Mao drinking blood, but in the eyes of these Khitan nobles today, grazing is no different from Ru Mao drinking blood.

All over the world to herd sheep, where is there more than thousands of acres of fertile land and hiring people to farm?

To the north of Datong, is the Liaoguo Southwest Road Recruitment Division, this administrative unit, is specially used to control the grassland, the Southwest Road Recruitment Division, is the Chahar of the later generations, belongs to Inner Mongolia, not far to the west is the Hohhot of Inner Mongolia in the later generations, and the southwest road of the Southwest Road Recruitment Division is near Hohhot in the later generations.

The southwest road recruits the division to the northwest, which is the Bai Dadan department, and to the north is the Moge lost department.

The Liao State controlled the entire steppe region, Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia together, and even went to Central Asia. The method of control is also relatively simple and crude, and the various parts of the grassland are now scattered sand, even if they are the same nation, many tribes will be divided, and it is common to attack each other.

The Liao State was not so much a ruler as an intermediate administrator, because the Liao State did not really demarcate administrative regions and send officials to actually rule, but used military coercion to subdue various tribes so that they would be obedient.

The Liao National Assembly will mediate disputes between various ministries and use some political means to manipulate profits. Of course, the Liao State has been constantly facing various rebellions, and from time to time some grassland tribes have united to rebel against the Liao State, but they have all been solved by the Liao State.

Now, the Liao State conscripts troops from all the tribes in the grassland, and each tribe has a task, how many people and horses are sent to the southwest road to recruit the division to gather, this matter is not so easy to do, the tribes close to the east are okay, and the tribes that go further to the west, the less they take this order of the Liao State seriously.

But we can't underestimate the prestige of the Khitan people in the grassland, even if it is against the yang and the yin, for the time being, they dare not disobey.

From east to west, the Moge Lost Division, the Wugu Division, the Eight Enemy Lie Divisions, the Chazara Division, the Menggu Division, the Dadan Nine Divisions, the Blocking Division, the Meili Urgent Division, and the Naiman Division......

It lasted more than four months, and the fast horses were running everywhere, and they all came, no matter how many came, they all arrived in the north of Datong, and the number of people was more than 100,000.

In the jurisdiction of Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing and Dading Mansion in Central Beijing, the traditional city garrison, the Bohai people in the jungle, and even some Jurchens, people from the Khitan headquarters, Murwei people, grassland tribes near Linhuang Mansion, and some Han people who migrated from Dading Mansion, there are hundreds of thousands.

This is the national power of Liao today.

People and horses gather first, and then talk about food and grass. Grain and grass, without Yanyun, the Liao State actually has no huge reserves.

But the Khitans are not in a hurry, because they still have a solution, but they really can't do it, and it is also a choice to eat all the cattle and sheep in nearby tribes like Bai Dadan Moge.

After all, the cattle and sheep raised are used for food, and as for what these nearby tribes will eat and use to multiply next year, these are not what the Khitan nobles think about for the time being. Who made their steppe so close to the Khitans?

The Liao army really divided into two routes, all the way to Yanjing, and approached various passes.

All the way to the opposite side of Datong, there are hundreds of thousands of people, but there are more horses than people.

Emperor Yelu Hongji personally led his troops out of Yanjing and was assembling at the Gubei Pass.

Yelu Yixin, with hundreds of thousands of grassland coalition troops, appeared in the north of Datong.

Di Qing went to the Gubei Pass, this place is relatively easy to guard, because under the lofty mountains, it is to see who can hold it.

Datong here, but it is difficult to defend a lot, because the Great Wall here is not complete, the Ming Dynasty will really build these Great Wall complete, here is also the Ming Dynasty's nine-sided town, even if the Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall here to complete, this section of the defense line has also been broken, the change of the civil fort, happened on this section of the defense line.

Therefore, today's Datong line is not so solid, and there are many gaps, so we can only rely on the city.

If the city is broken, the enemy army can drive straight into Yanjing. If this is the case, then even Di Qing, who is defending the front line of the Gubei Pass, will definitely be defeated, and the back road will be copied, and he will be attacked by the enemy, and there will be no supply of food and grass materials.

Strategically speaking, once Gubei loses, Datong is still very safe relying on the line of Taiyuan Yanmen, and if it can hold on, it can at least occupy half of the state capital of Yanyun. If Datong loses, Yanyun will gain and lose, and there will be nothing left.

This is also the reason why Gan Qi came to Datong by himself, even if he fails, he has to lose in his own hands.

Yes, Gan Qi is starting to get anxious again, he is already thinking about failure.

The more anxious he became, the more he missed Bianliang City in Tokyo, and Gan Qi took a shortcut to the center of power, but the shortcut was never so easy to take. Others have worked hard for decades to get up, but Gan Qi has reached the sky one step at the age of twenty-three or four, and this step is too tiring to walk.

What Gan Qi is most afraid of is that he takes a big step, which tears the egg.

Looking at the map, Ganchi began to sleep all night again.

Several nearby cities, Changqing, Tiancheng, and even Hongzhou and Huai'an, are lined up, all of which are likely to be attacked, and Datong is the focus of this line, but once the other cities are broken, they will also cut off the connection between Datong and Yanjing, not an information connection, but a military connection.

Gan Qi now has 20,000 of the 100,000 victorious troops, 30,000 mighty troops, more than 20,000 forbidden troops transferred from the original Hedong border, and more than 10,000 Xiang troops who do some logistical things.

Opposite Ganqi, there are more than 100,000 steppe cavalry, these steppe cavalry are very poorly armed, even the swords and guns are not good, and the power of bows and crossbows is not great, not to mention the armor, except for the cowhide armor, the iron armor is almost invisible.

But these steppe cavalry, almost every one of them with more than two healthy horses, came and went like the wind, moved quickly, and the bow and crossbow were not very powerful, but these people were skilled in archery.

The troops under Ganch's command, and these steppe cavalry, were completely two styles of army. It is a collision of standard agrarian civilization and nomadic civilization.

However, Gan Qi also has an advantage, that is, these hundreds of thousands of grassland cavalry are not really here to sell their lives, and they are not really able to command in a unified manner, such as arm command. Because Yelu Yixin, not Genghis Khan Temujin, the Liao people never really unified the steppe.

In the battlefield situation, there is still a difference between active and passive.

The hundreds of thousands of steppe people who come and go like the wind nowadays obviously occupy the initiative, and mobility is the initiative.

Gan Qi cobbled together, a total of only seven thousand horses, far less mobile, obviously passive.

How to turn passive into active, Gan Qi has already figured out his head, even if he controls a little battlefield initiative, it is good.

It was another sleepless night, and in the Datong Mansion, officials from all over the country began to come to duty. Chen Han, the newly appointed judge of Datong Mansion, has been following Gan Qi for the past few days, and he has been eating breakfast delivered early in the morning.

Chen Han is also unlucky, not long ago he happily set off from Bianliang to Datong to take office, where did he think that once he arrived in Datong, he didn't even have time to put his official authority on it, Gan Qi came, and brought a news that there was going to be a war, and the Liao army of more than 100,000 troops was gathering.

When Chen Han heard the news, he panicked and almost blurted out that he was about to resign and go home. Even the subordinates who came with Chen Han persuaded Chen Han several times to leave quickly, this place is not for people, so as not to lose his life if he is not an official.

Chen Han almost packed up his things and ran away, but in the end, he endured and endured, and stayed in a state of extreme unease.

Wealth and danger seeking, this truth Chen Han understands, but if he really does this kind of thing, he will even shake a few more times when he pees in the thatched house, he is really afraid, he is so scared that he is so frightened that he will dream of being chased and killed by the vicious Liao soldiers when he sleeps, and then he will be woken up by his own shouting.

But he really stayed.

Chen Han walked into the back hall of the mansion, Gan Qi, who had not slept all night, was inside, and there were several maps hanging on the wall of the back hall, and Gan Qi stared at the map intently.

Chen Han put the millet porridge and pickled vegetable baked cakes in his hand on the table, then saluted respectfully and said, "Gan Xianggong, let's eat first." ”

Gan Qi glanced back and said, "You're here, I have something for you to do." ”

"Gan Xianggong, please command." As he spoke, Chen Han's heart tightened.

"Later, you take a team of men and horses out of the city, and move everyone around Datong City into the city, and the most important thing is to let the people harvest all the wheat, whether it is ripe or not, it cannot be left." Ganchi instructed that the season was getting warmer, and it was almost the season of winter wheat harvest, and that these things must not be left outside the city at this time, otherwise they would become rations for the enemy.

When Chen Han heard this, he said: "Xianggong, are you afraid that the people don't want to?" If you wait another twenty or thirty days for a good harvest, then all the harvest will be harvested, and the losses will be heavy. ”

"All I want you to take a team of men and horses out of the city to do this, not only the wheat will be harvested, but the people will also enter the city, and when the battle is over, the losses will be borne by the government." Gan Qi said that this is a chore, forcing people to do things they don't want to do, and it is definitely not easy to do.

But Chen Han is a judge of Datong Mansion, and this kind of errand is just right for him.

It's not Gan Qi who embarrasses Chen Han, but Gan Qi who promotes Chen Han, whether a person is useful or not, whether he can use it or not, it's just this time, if this thing is not done well, Chen Han will never appear in Gan Qi's personnel arrangements in the future.

Chen Han was a little flustered, mainly not because of an errand, but because he went out of the city. He knew that the Liao army's hundreds of thousands of troops were not far from the north, and if he went out of the city at this time, if he happened to encounter the Liao army going south, his life would be in danger.

Chen Han's hands trembled a little, a second-generation official in Bianliang City, suddenly did his life's work, and he didn't blame him for doing so.

Chen Han looked at Gan Qi, who had a serious face, not at all like Gan Qi he knew in Bianliang City. Gan Qi in Bianliang City always has a smile on his face, is amiable when he speaks, joking, talking and laughing, drinking too much and doing some hilarious things, when he is in a good mood, he writes poems or something, all of them laugh heartily.

Now Gan Qi in Datong City, his face is always serious, his brows are always furrowed, and there is not a word of ridicule between his words.

Chen Han gritted his teeth and arched his hand: "I have to give the order, and the next official will do it!" ”

Gan Qi waved his hand: "Go and do it quickly, the sooner the better." ”

Chen Han nodded, went out, and went to Di Yong to ask for a military order to mobilize people. In any case, this errand must be done well, outside of Datong City, not a grain of grain can be seen, and the nearby residents must all move into the city, whether they are beaten, scolded or frightened, they must also do things quickly.

Gan Qi looked at Chen Han's back when he went out, nodded, he saw Chen Han's uneasiness, but Chen Han still took people out of the city, which made Gan Qi very satisfied, and there was a feeling that I didn't look at the wrong person. This is probably also a kind of test, and this is how people's courage is trained.

Even if you don't see people who can't see blood anymore, you will not be surprised when you watch killing people every day.

This Datong City will be a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and it will also be a place where Chen Han will change his life.

Gan Qi in front of Yutu, holding a baked cake in one hand and rice porridge in the other, finally made up his mind.

He had 7,000 horses, and he had to use them all, and this was the only bit of battlefield initiative in his hands.

Gan Qi was also ready to go out of the city, so he took the seven thousand cavalry out of the city, and when he was fighting for his life, he couldn't control so much. If there is really no initiative, the chances of winning this battle will be greatly reduced.

Go out of the city, let the hundreds of thousands of grassland people have a fear, to fight a tough battle, to see if these hundreds of thousands of grassland people are united? Or is it a plate of loose sand?

Gan Qi wants to see what this army of hundreds of thousands of steppes looks like!